Berjaya Group Obtained Football Betting License

I remembered not so long ago some organisation strongly rejected the idea of legalising betting, especially football bettings. But yesterday it was announced that Berjaya's subsidary company, Ascot Sports is officially been awarded the betting license and they are now the legal site to place your football bettings.

Is this a good news for all punters? Yes it is a good news for punters because they do not require to place their bets in the underground betting groups. They can now walk in to any of the 200 plus legal shops to place their bets. No hassle and no worry for police to scoop them away!

My main concern here is: Why BN suddenly made a U-turn on betting license? Not so long ago when this idea was suggested, it attracted all sort of criticisms from everywhere, and no one, especially inside the BN government's. They strongly oppose to the move, and strongly stated that this is an Islamic country and gambling and drinking is strongly prohibited.

Still remember hulu Selangor by-election? Datuk Zaid Ibrahim was labelled a gambler for "owning" a race horse, and he was called drinker with a bottle of unopened whisky in his hand. What will this made compare to legalising betting license to a well-known conman tycoon?

Maybe Pakatan Rakyat's inside information is right about Barisan Nasional's MPs. They are all worse gamblers and drinkers. Maybe in the near future Malaysia will really be a multi-racial country, and everything the world can accept can be found in Malaysia including prostitution! That's what I'm waiting for! Come on BN! Issue the prostitution license quick since you awarded the betting license.

Another factor, which I personally guess, is that our government is broke, and they have no more funds to spend, which causing them to issue the license in short space of time, so a huge amount of betting tax & duties can be collected. Each week the amount of betting stakes could be more than 10s of millions, and this is a low cost operation industries, and I'm quite sure government can easily collected hundreds of million betting tax from this alone.

Good or bad, I'm waiting for the prostitution license to be awarded!